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Commentary
1¹SALVIO made space on the right and pulled the ball to JARA who clipped the ball wide.
1¹JARA beat PARKER and fired the ball to SALVIO who toe-poked his effort wide.
2¹A penalty box meleé resulted in CHADLI knocking a low shot over.
4¹A accurate pass bobbled toward RUBEN AMORIM and his deadly effort floated narrowly over.
6¹A fine run was ended by a good save by the advancing 'keeper.
8¹COENTRÃO galloped through the FC Twente defence but shot straight at the 'keeper.
9¹GOAL!! A mishit goal-kick was intercepted by GAITAN who setup TELLO with a simple chance. (1-0 Benfica)
20¹A corner found TELLO who fired an effort wide.
24¹GAITAN rasped the ball through a crowd of players but the FC Twente 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his left.
31¹A deadly effort from GAITAN was clawed past the post by the FC Twente 'keeper.
34¹RUIZ was put clear by CHADLI and he raced past the Benfica 'keeper but glanced his shot over.
37¹A free-kick from RUIZ raced wide.
42¹A drive from BRAMA seemed a certain goal but EDUARDO managed to force the ball clear.
10²GOAL!! A quick free-kick allowed PARKER to touch the ball to RUIZ who placed a looping shot into the back of the net. (1-1)
12²COENTRÃO ran onto a wonderful ball from RUBEN AMORIM but fired his shot wide of the lefthand post.
14²A weak strike from PEREIRA bounced agonisingly wide.
19²GOAL!! An inswinging corner kicked out by DE JONG was blasted into the back of the net by JARA. (2-1 Benfica)
24²A useful ball from DE JONG on the left fell to BRAMA who mishit his shot just beyond the near post.
25²GOAL!! FC Twente were awarded a penalty after a foul on BRAMA and JANKO put it past EDUARDO. (2-2)
34²GOAL!! After a patient build-up PETRE drove a low shot past the 'keeper. (3-2 Benfica)
38²CHADLI beat a number of Benfica players and fired a golden opportunity wide.
45²JANKO blasted a looping shot wide from thirty yards out.

 
Benfica
 
League position: 1
Home league form: WWLX
Overall league form: OWOWLWWL
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
EDUARDO dos Reis6½16½Nikolay MIHAYLOV
Maximiliano PEREIRA7 26½Peter WISGERHOF(c)
Fábio COENTRÃO8 36½Dwight TIENDALLI
Osvaldo GAITAN7½47½Bernard PARKER
TONEL6 56½DOUGLAS Franco
FÁBIO do Passo FARIA6 66 Rasmus BENGTSSON
Eduardo SALVIO6½76½Wout BRAMA
Silvestre VARELA5½87 Bryan RUIZ
(p)Franco JARA7 97 Marc JANKO(p)
(f)RUBEN Filipe AMORIM6 106½Luuk DE JONG(f)
(c)Rodrigo TELLO6 115½Nacer CHADLI
Manager
Leandro GRIMI  12  Anouar DIBA
ROBERTO Jiménez  13  Sander BOSCHKER
FELIPE Menezes6 14  Nicky KUIPER
Ovidiu PETRE7 156½Emir BAJRAMI
ALAN KARDEC de Souza  16  Thilo LEUGERS
 
FC Twente
 
League position: 9
Away league form: WLXW
Overall league form: LWWLXXWW
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Benfica 3 FC Twente 2
(Half-time: 1-0, Attendance: 45,640, Stadium: Estad. do Sport Lisboa e Benfica, Referee: Tom Henning Øvrebø 5½)

Tello 9¹, Jara 19², Petre 34²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Ruiz 10², Janko 25² (pen)
VarelaóPetre 3², TonelóFelipe 25²WisgerhofóBajrami 25²
  
  
67
168
98
86
118
1914
44
47%53%
Man of the match: Fábio Coentrão